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there's not much I can agree with here

Posted by kit on 2024-March-15 07:03:02, Friday
In reply to Re: The trouble with blaming feminism posted by monkeyLostInHead on 2024-March-12 08:22:27, Tuesday

... but then again, I'm not sure I understand a lot of what you're trying to argue.

There are parts that I could agree with, though I'm not sure whether you intend them in the way that I would understand them.

For instance, where you say Men and women are different, and treat children differently I would certainly agree, but I don't know whether you think (as I do) that this difference is real but culturally constructed and lacking in any necessary reality, or (as I suspect) that you think this is some fundamental truth about the world.

Personally, I don't think sex tells us much about people or about the world.

Still, even from the sex-essentialist position (which I don't share) it seems a bit strong to suggest that women generically don't allow tree climbing or jumping off couches. That seems a tough argument for biological essentialism, assuming that this is the case you are attempting to make.

Feminisms primary goal is to transfer power to women.

Not sure about this. As with just about every easy definition of feminism (including those advanced by feminists themselves) this seems both self-serving and question-begging. What women? And in pursuit of what? This seems more like a conspiracy theory than like a description of the twentieth century's most succesful social and political movement.



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